UNJUST DESSERTS
DRINK DRIVER WHO BADLY HURT GLASGOW CABBIE IN A HIT AND RUN HAS BEEN SPARED JAIL
A drink driver who badly hurt a cabbie in a hit and run has been spared jail. According to GlasgowLive, Sharon Bell, 42, struck Peter Renwick on December 16 2019 on Yorker Mill Road in Glasgow’s Yoker. Bell, of Clydebank, West Dunbarton- shire, returned to the dock on Thursday 9 September, having pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Bell was sentenced to a community payback order and supervision for 18 months, a restriction of liberty order for five months with a curfew in place, and has been disqualified from driving for 29 months.
Bell had been driving her red Suzuki Swift with Mr Renwick travelling the opposite way in his black taxi cab. Prosecutor John Bedford told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “Bell caused the vehicle
to veer into the other side of the road and collide in a head-on collision with Mr. Renwick’s cab.” “Mr. Renwick was trapped inside his cab while Bell got out of her car. “Several people came out to help and emergency services were called.” Bell then left the scene, but returned to retrieve something from her car before fleeing. Mr. Renwick was rushed to Wishaw Hospital for injuries including a fracture of the collarbone. He was off work for three months. The court was told that Bell had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash. Bell was arrested the next day and told police she had no recollection of how she got home after the incident. Paul Langan, defending told the court: “She took the wrong advice from the
THUG WHO SPRAYED SUBSTANCE IN LEICESTER CABBIE’S FACE AVOIDS JAIL
A thug sprayed an unknown substance in a cab driver’s face minutes after an appointment with his probation officer. Billy James Clifton turned violent when asked for his fare up front, Leicester Crown Court heard. Andrew Peet, prosecuting, said Clifton, 23, was already the subject of two suspended prison sentences when he committed the latest offence. Mr Peet said that despite the dispute over about the fare, the “public spirited” taxi driver still agreed to take Clifton to his destination in Evington. He said: “After alighting from the taxi, the defendant, who had some sort of spray with him, sprayed it directly into the face and eyes of the driver. “It caused discomfort and stinging and it caused him to cough - it was deeply unpleasant.”
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Clifton, from, Leicester, left the scene but was arrested a few days later, on February 15 this year. Officers found a nasal spray bottle at his home - but he refused to say what substance he’d used.
He pleaded guilty to common assault. Mr Peet said Clifton had 31 offences including possession of a CS spray. Sentencing, Recorder MacAdam accepted that Clifton had changed from being “a thoroughly unpleasant individual” since his medication had been sorted out and with the responsi- bility of fatherhood. He added: “It’s rare for me to say to anyone in breach of two suspended sentences that I will give you another chance. But I am on this occasion.” He said he believed Clifton had “turned a corner.”
wrong person and did not contact the police.” Bell was visibly distressed and cried as her sentence was decided in court. Sheriff Joan Kerr said: “You accepted that you drive dangerously - as a result, an individual who was driving a taxi had extreme injuries. You left the scene of an accident and did not report to police.”
BROTHERS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF ABUSING HOCKLEY CABBIE
A jury has found two brothers not guilty of abusing a taxi driver and smashing up his vehicle causing £1,000 worth of damage. The Echo reports that Callum Murphy, 25, and his brother Craig, 31, both from Hockley, stood trial at Basildon Crown Court after allegedly committing affray by yelling abuse at a taxi driver, threat- ening him with a hammer and then smashing up his taxi in a row over a fare being paid upfront. But the jury found them not guilty and the pair were acquitted. The jury had previously heard from Murphy that he said he only had £10 on him at the time, and that he had asked the driver to drop them at a cash point. The court was also told that during the alleged incident Craig Murphy, in the passenger seat, allegedly produced a hammer and grabbed the taxi driver. The court previously heard that the pair, and Jordan Dean, 32, from Hornchurch, had been drunk and entered the taxi, before getting angry when the driver asked for the £20 fare up front. The alleged incident took place at 10.15pm on October 24, 2018, and Gabrielle McAvock, prosecuting, told the court the trio were not arrested until 10.45pm.
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